Jalen Brunson is now the first player in NBA history to win Finals MVP, Conference Finals MVP, and NBA Cup MVP.
In just one season, he became a Knicks legend.
Jalen thank you for choosing New York City.
Thank you to Randle & Donte for helping bring Towns over.
Thank you to Quickley & RJ for helping bring us OG.
Fuck them picks. Mikal I love you.
Thank you Reddish for Hart.
Thank you Yabu for Jose.
Thank you to the Knicks front office for drafting Mitch, Diawara, McBride & Kolek.
Thank you Clarkson for taking a vet min when you could’ve gotten more elsewhere.
Thank you Shamet for doing the same.
Thank you Thibodeau. You helped change the culture & made the Knicks matter again.
But most of all thank you Leon, Dolan, Mike Brown.
& to everybody else.
Because what can they say now?
They can’t talk rings anymore.
We’re NBA Champions.
The drought is over!
The NBA just did something leagues almost never do: side against one of its own owners, in his own market, during the Finals.
Live broadcast rights are the most protected asset in sports. Disney and friends paid $76B in the latest media deal partly for moments exactly like this. Bars need licenses just to show games. Yet within hours of James Dolan pulling the plug on the watch party outside his own arena, the league cleared New York City to stream Game 4 free on public street furniture.
Dolan's stated reason for canceling: a 999-person cap was an insult when "we're about millions of people."
So the city took him literally. LinkNYC runs roughly 2,000 kiosks across the five boroughs, built on the corpse of the old payphone franchise. Dolan controls the Garden. The city controls every sidewalk around it.
One detail makes the whole thing sting. MSG requested the 999-person permit itself, then canceled when it was approved.
Owners win these standoffs when they own the only screen in town. Dolan just found out the city has two thousand of them.
One thing I hate that the media continues to do…. is put the negative Knicks fans in the spotlight then group us all together like we all act that way.
But then again why wouldn’t they? Nobody is going to post thousands of fans celebrating, coming together & being positive. That doesn’t get clicks. The fans fighting, being disrespectful that’s what goes viral.
Because let’s be fr anybody with common sense or raised right knows throwing objects at people, esp players is wrong. Taking jerseys off people’s backs is wrong. Fighting people is wrong. None of that should be defended.
What I don’t understand is how some of ya have taken that and turned it into “Knicks don’t deserve a championship.”
That’s just silly.
What happens outside in the streets because of some idiots has nothing to do with what our guys are doing at MSG/each night during this run! They DESERVE!
I do too 😂